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Female Bobsledder Rips Spandex on Live TV (Video)

If you’re a bobsledder — and who isn’t? — you are probably most concerned cracks in the ice. Well now you better be careful for the spandex wardrobe malfunction — a whole different kind of crack concern. Check out what happens to UK female bobsledder Gillian Cooke as she gets ready for a run. A 1 and a 2 and a…

If she farted there it could give them an extra boost! Maybe it was strategy! Maybe she was just trying to copy Ricky Berens. But Cooke is indeed a world-class athlete.

Cooke started in track and field. She’s done the triple jump at the Commonwealth Youth Games, and set a Scottish junior record for the pole vault. She also competed in the long jump, and took the silver medal at the UK championships. She also is tops in the Scottish 100m sprint rankings and British 60m ranking.

Now Cooke is with driver Nicola Minichiello in the two-woman bobsleigh as the brakewoman. And the break your pants woman. They won the gold medal in the two-woman event at the FIBT World Championships 2009 in New York.